On February 9, 2004 11:07 am, Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote:
> Goodmorning:
>
> I got a new Pc at work :-)
> IBM ThinkCentre P4 blablabla
> Now I took my old HD, a 120 gig slammed it in the new box
> and...
>
> Not to bad actually only X is giving me grief.
> I am typing this in a 640x480 window...
> Tried sax2 but I am not able to change to 1600x1200.
You probably need to configure your XF86Config file yourself. Depending on the
distro and your setup it will probably be /etc/X11/XF86Config
or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
Once again your distro may have GUI tools for this, assuming you can even get
a GUI.
>
> HW:
> Card :Intel i845 (i810)
> chipset 845G
> Monitor Dell M991
Pretty similar chipset to my laptop. Depending on the distro [pattern forming
here...] you might need a kernel compile. If youre running RH, MDK, Suse etc
this probably isnt necessary although if you have i845 sound acpi is required
for that to work. 2.4.22 or later kernels have acpi included, any earlier
than that'll need a patch.
>
> During the <test> in sax2 I see a screen at 480x640 without being able to
> change a thing. A msg on the bottom says Screen[0] No video mode tuning
> available.
>
> I switched to lower cards i830 but no luck.
>
> Any clues?
> I am still a kind of nube
> Especially with X so
> Please add an extra word of explaination...
It really sounds like a simple display change in XF86Config might help. Look
for something like...
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600X1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
The first value under Modes will be the default. Depth is the color depth.
Youre probably at 24bpp. Maybe 32, but I don't know if X does 32 yet. Hope
that helps.
Can you tell us what distro? I assume I SHOULD know by the program sax being
mentioned, but I dont :)
'>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
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